Goal

Reduce the prevalence of stunting among children 0-59 months from 33.1% in 2020 to 10% in 2030.

FROM Commitment: Reduce stunting, anemia and overweight.

Government / Rwanda

Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion

Partner organisations:
Country government at any administrative level: Ministry of Health , Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources, Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, Ministry of Local Government
Date made: 07 Dec 2021
Related event: 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit
Verification status Verified Find out more
NAF SMARTness index High Find out more
Targeted location National -
Targeted population Specific population group(s)
Targeted population age Specific age group(s)
Targeted population specific age Children 0-59months
Targeted population sex All
Population coverage 2,000,000.0
Primary indicator Prevalence of stunting among children 0-59 months
Primary indicator baseline 0.331
Primary indicator target 0.1
Duration January, 2022 - June, 2030

Goal action plan

1.Health system strengthening 1.1 Health and nutrition service Reinforce the growth monitoring and promotion and maternal infant and young child nutrition counselling• Strengthen the nutrition-sensitive reproductive health services to improve maternal and child nutrition and to prevent overweight/obesity• Provide parents with an avenue to learn about early stimulation of infants, child care practices, preparation of nutritious meals from locally available foods, and responsive feeding• Enable the health and nutrition system in order to adapt to an increasing incidences of diet related non-communicable diseases in view of life course approach • Regulate the marketing of unhealthy foods • Develop/update tools and implement behaviour change communication activities on healthy diets based on the program evaluation and researches

1.2 Health and nutrition workforce • Train nutritionists at secondary schools and universities in order to have a pool of qualified nutritionists and place them at all levels of health facilities and institutions working on nutrition

1.3 Information system• Strengthen the use of data and feedback (gaps and challenges) to inform the evidence-based programming (target groups, geographic coverage and financial needs)• Digitalize community registration and reporting systems

1.4 Governance and leadership• Reinforce the multi-sector coordination to mainstream nutrition through annual single action plans, District Plans to Eliminate Malnutrition and the implementation of all nutrition interventions

1.5 Financing• Carry out costing exercise to project the nutrition investments necessary to achieve country’s targets through multi-sectoral interventions• Increase the budget for the recruitment of more nutritionists at health facilities and their payment, and for the incentives for community health workers

2. Food system strengthening• Ensure that the nutrition-sensitive agriculture mainstreaming guidelines are appropriately utilized by agricultural promoters, community health workers and ECD caregivers • Strengthen the food value chains, capable of supplying nutritious foods products• Identify and roll out agricultural innovations and research aligned with the national nutrition priorities • Scale-up the distribution of small livestock, expand fisheries and increase poultry of egg production to complement the existing Girinka program • Work with regulatory authorities to facilitate access, streamline milk distribution from farm to table and enforce milk safety and quality standards• Establish a SUN Business Network to engage private players in the food industry on regulation of food in terms of nutritional quality and safety• Disseminate the national food-based dietary guideline and integrate into new and existing programs that promote behaviour change for nutrition.

Nutrition Action Classification

Enabling

  • Financial
  • Operational
  • Leadership and governance
  • Research monitoring and data

Policy

  • Food environment
  • Food supply chain
  • Consumer knowledge
  • Nutrition care services

Impact

  • Undernutrition
  • Diet
  • Obesity and diet-related NCDs
  • Food and nutrition security

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